Protests outside the Oakland Temple

[Tex]

If you opposed-to-Prop-8 folks had any guts, you'd be right out there with them, harassing 75-year-old temple worker ladies. You'd be wearing your "No on Prop 8" buttons to church and risking your membership for the cause you believe in.

Cowards.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Tex

If you opposed-to-Prop-8 folks had any guts, you'd be right out there with them, harassing 75-year-old temple worker ladies. You'd be wearing your "No on Prop 8" buttons to church and risking your membership for the cause you believe in.

Cowards.

I dont have a "No on Prop 8" button to wear to Church, otherwise I would wear one.

I did once wear a "Missions are OPTIONAL" button to church, however. The Bishop asked me to take it off.

[ERCougar]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

I was under the impression that they had received significant funding so they have to be doing something with all that cash.

Massive gay orgies.

They'll make our schoolkids attend if they win.

[ERCougar]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

I dont have a "No on Prop 8" button to wear to Church, otherwise I would wear one.

I did once wear a "Missions are OPTIONAL" button to church, however. The Bishop asked me to take it off.

You BETTER not still be teaching the YM...

[exUte]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

I don't know what you are suggesting here.

View this from the perspective of protestors. This is what they see:

The Mormon church making public statements about Prop 8 and spurring its members to take action;

Huge donations from church members in support of Prop 8;

Members showing up at their doors (2 at a time, like the missionaries), asking people to support Prop 8;

Members calling them on their phones asking for support for Prop 8;

News reports that the church will ask members throughout the US to support Prop 8.

The church and its members begin to very much appear like a monolithic voting bloc on Prop 8, and it is very easy to see how they then assume that people attending the temple (which is viewed as the Mormon Mecca, so to speak), are participating in Prop 8 political movements. So the protestors target those individuals entering the temple, while also making a statement directed to the broader public outside of the temple that the Mormon involvement is inappropriate/incorrect.

I see this as a logical response to the church's actions. The church can hardly get this involved in political affairs and then claim that they are exempt from political speech directed at the church or its members in retribution.

Classic.

[exUte]

Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

As long as the protest doesn't overtly mock what's going on in the temple, or doesn't trespass, I think it is understandable.

In a way, Mormons actually like to be persecuted.

I'll ask him how much he liked it.

[Jennerstein]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

I dont have a "No on Prop 8" button to wear to Church, otherwise I would wear one.

I did once wear a "Missions are OPTIONAL" button to church, however. The Bishop asked me to take it off.

Tell you what, if I make one for you, will you wear it to Stake Conference this weekend?